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09/06/2026

This fall, Apple is releasing iOS 27 — and it comes with the most significant Screen Time and parental controls update we've seen yet.
Here's what's coming:

🔒 Child accounts with automatic age-appropriate protections built in from the start

✅ Ask to Browse — kids request permission before accessing new content

⏱️ Time Allowances to set clear limits without constant manual adjustments — and customize what's allowed based on time of day, like school hours or homework time

👤 Contact approval — parents can approve every new contact their child adds

🚨 Automatic alerts if explicit or violent content is being shared

📊 A redesigned Screen Time experience so you can actually understand how your child is using their device

The best part? These tools are designed to work without parents having to manage every setting manually.

This is a big deal. Share this with every parent you know so they're ready when iOS 27 drops this fall.

05/06/2026

Connection goes a long way in managing behaviour.

01/06/2026

25/05/2026

Some of the signs that your child is struggling emotionally & would benefit from play therapy:
•frequent, unexpected crying/meltdowns
•change in eating habits
•persistent nightmares
•extreme clinginess or avoidance
•increased anger or irritability
•regressing to younger childhood behaviour
•difficulty making or keeping friendships
•frequent negative self talk.

16/05/2026

05/05/2026

It's a good day to role play standing up for ourselves! .

04/05/2026

Developmental milestones are a set of functional skills or age-specific tasks that most children can do at a certain age range. 

They are markers of a child’s development from infancy through childhood.

In clinical practice, we use developmental milestones to help determine if a child is undergoing typical development or experiencing developmental differences that require additional support.

Self-soothing is not a developmental milestone.

Self-soothing has become a bit of a buzz term on social media. Despite the popular claims floating around in online spaces, there is no scientific evidence that infants or young children can be taught to self-soothe states of distress or dysregulation on their own. Infants and young children depend on caregivers for external soothing and co-regulation.

From a neurodevelopmental perspective, we know that the ability to self-soothe and regulate emotion builds gradually from the early years through the first two-and-a-half decades of life if and when children have a secure attachment with at least one caregiver who provides consistent enough attuned and responsive care and coregulation.

If you’ve ever read or been told something that made you anxious or concerned about your child’s ability to self-soothe or regulate their own emotion, please remember: self-soothing is not a development milestone, it is a complex process that develops gradually over years and years within the context of a sensitive and responsive relationship with a caregiver.

Save this post to come back to if you need and send it to the parents you know who need to read this.

01/05/2026

🌈 A BRAND NEW DIVISION IS OPENING! 🌈

NeuroKids SA is proud to introduce a skills-based training center for autistic adults, under the NeuroKids Inclusive Project NPO.

We are focused on real-time job skills and meaningful job placement opportunities.

👷‍♂️ In partnership with industry professionals, participants will be trained in:
• Painting
• Plastering
• Building

💼 What makes this different?
✔ Practical, hands-on training
✔ Transition into paid practicals
✔ Support into job placements

📅 Course starts: 1 June 2026

💰 Cost: R3,500 per individual

⏳ Registration closes: 15 May 2026

⚠ Only 10 spaces available

📧 [email protected]
📞 083 754 7105

Let’s build skills, independence, and real opportunities together.

13/04/2026

Begin volgende week 🗓️